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Fun with bloodthirsty ruthless dictators: North Korea’s video summarizing the Singapore Summit

Not that long ago, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were on a path to nuclear war. Now they’re apparently BFFs.

Funny how Donald Trump likes to cozy up to authoritarian leaders and dictators while simultaneously insulting America’s allies and friends.

Laibach, the heavy industrial act from Slovenia (est. 1980), was weird to begin with. But when they announced they were

Now that Blue Monday is behind us, we can concentrate on getting through the second half of what’s been (generally)

Hee Yeon Lim is a 26-year-old defector from North Korea. She claims to have witnessed a horrific mass execution of

And just like that, it’s autumn. Here’s some music news. Interesting: BBC Radio 1 wants to become “the Netflix of

North Korea is a horrible little country where a brutal paranoid dictator funnels the nation’s scarce resources into military might while

Oh, North Korea. You’re just a nutty, horrible place. We all hate performance reviews, but be thankful that you don’t

The strip of no-man’s land along the 38th parallel on the Korean peninsula is an extremely weird and dangerous place.

Laibach dropped into my consciousness in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the

I’ve been to the DPRK–sort of. On a trip to Seoul, we took a tour of the southern side of

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver